The High Chaparral
Cast Western Filmographies

Rudolfo Acosta
Westerns

Feature Films

Television

1950   Pancho Villa Returns
1952   Horizons West
1953   City of Bad Men
1953   San Antone
1953   Hondo 
1953  Wings of the Hawk
1954   Passion
1954   Drum Beat 
1956   Bandido
1956   The Proud Ones
1957   Trooper Hook
1957   Apache Warrior
1958   From Hell to Texas
1960   Flaming Star
1960   Walk Like a Dragon
1961   One-Eyed Jacks 
1961   The Second Time Around
1961   The Last Rebel
1961   Posse from Hell 
1963   How the West Was Won 
1963 Savage Sam
1964   Rio Conchos
1965   The Sons of Katie Elder 
1965 Rio Hondo
1965   The Reward
1966   Return of the Magnificent Seven
1967 Stranger on the Run
1969   Young Billy Young
1970   Flap
1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride!
  Have Gun Will Travel
  The Man Who Lost  1959
1958
-1960 
Zorro 
Secret of the Sierra (1958)
El Bandido
(1960)
Adios El Cuchillo
(1960)
19559 Sugarfoot  
   Small Hostage
1958
-1961 
Cheyenne 
Standoff (1958)
The Rebellion (1959)
Day's Pay
(1961)
1958   Jefferson Drum 
Bandidos
1959
-1964 
Rawhide
Incident of the Power and the Plow (1959)
Incident at Superstition Prairie
(1960)
Incident of the Hostages
(1963)
Incident at Gila Flats
(1964)
1959   The Rebel 
Yellow Hair
1959 The Texan
The Reluctant Bridegroom
1960
-1962 
Bronco
La Rubia (1960)
Until Kingdom Come
(1962)
1961 Tales of Wells Fargo  1961
   Tanoa
1962   Maverick
Poker Face
1963   The Virginian
Mountain of the Sun
1963   The Great Adventure 
The Death of Sitting Bull (1963)
Massacre at Wounded Knee
(1963)
1964   Travels of Jamie McPheeters 
The Day of the Tin Trumpet
1964
-1965 
Death Valley Days 
A Book of Spanish Grammar (1964)
The Other White Man
(1964)
Temporary Warden
(1965)
1964
-1970 
Bonanza
A Knight to Remember (1964)
All Ye His Saints
(1965)

Rudy Acosta as Lijah in All Ye His Saints

Yonder Man
(1968)
El Jefe
(1970)
1965   The Big Valley
The Way to Kill a Killer
1965
-1966 
Daniel Boone
The Thanksgiving Story (1965)
Grizzly
(1966)
1966   The Iron Horse
Cougar Man
1967   Laredo
Scourge of San Rusa
1967 Custer
  Sabers in the Sun
1969   The Outcasts 
The Stalking Devil
 Give Me Tomorrow
 
 

 

 

 

 

1957  Have Gun Will Travel
Regular Cast: 
Richard Boone
                      Kam Tong
                      Lisa Lu

Episode: Show of Force  (November 9, 1957)
Season 1 - Episode 9
Director:  Andrew V. McLaglen
Writers:  Ken Kolb and Lee Irwin
Also Starring: Joe Bassett, Andy Brennan, Peter Coe,
                      Ned Glass, Russ Conway, Vic Perrin


Rudy Acosta as Pedro Valdez

   
With Richard Boone and Peter Coe


With Peter Coe, playing his brother, Carlos Valdez

Notes: Rudy played the lead guest role of "Pedro Valdez" in this episode of Have Gun Will Travel, a popular 30-minute Western that ran on CBS from 1957 to 1963.  Richard Boone starred as Paladin, a dapper gunslinger who only used his gun as a last resort.  Jerry Summers, Alex Sharp, Red Morgan, and Charles Horvath were some of the HC stuntmen who had contributions over the course of the series.  The full series is now available on DVD in excellent black & white quality.

 

 

 

1959  Have Gun Will Travel
Regular Cast: 
Richard Boone
                      Kam Tong
                      Lisa Lu

Rudy plays "John Wildhorse"

Episode: Hunt the Man Down  (February 7, 1959)
Season 2 - Episode 31
Director:  Ida Lupino
Writer:  Harry Julian Fink
Also Starring: Mort Mills, Jack Elam, Ed Nelson,
                      Barbara Hayden, Jovon Monteil,
                      Marilyn Hanold

   

   

Rudy Acosta as "John Wildhorse" with Richard Boone as Paladin in "Hunt the Man Down"

Notes: This was Rudy's second appearance on Have Gun Will Travel.  He plays an Indian scout who helps Paladin find his man, but disagrees with him on how to render justice.  It is the most substantive guest role of the episode.  This was the first television Western episode directed by a woman, Ida Lupino.  A film star herself, she became an established director and writer in both television and film.  HC guest star, Jack Elam, also appears here.

 

1961  Have Gun Will Travel
Regular Cast: 
Richard Boone
                      Kam Tong
                      Lisa Lu

Rudy plays "Sanchez"

Episode: Fandango  (March 4, 1961)
Season 4 - Episode 24
Director: 
Writers: 
Also Starring: Robert Gist, Karl Swenson,
                     Andrew Prine, Jerry Summers

 
   

Notes: This is Rudy's third appearance on Have Gun Will Travel.  HC cast member, Jerry Summers also has a role.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1958  Ride
Director:                           Roberto plays
Writers: 
Starring: 
Notes:
Roberto

 

1978  How the West Was Won 
Director:                                                             Ted plays
Writer:
Starring: 
Notes:

 

1958  Maverick
Regular Cast: 

Roberto plays

Episode: Plunder of Paradise  (   1958)
Season  - Episode
Director: 
Writers: 
Also Starring:

 

  

 

Notes:

 

 

 

Other Western Filmographies

Leif Erickson                (John Cannon)
Cameron Mitchell
          (Buck Cannon)
Linda Cristal
                (Victoria Cannon)
Henry Darrow
              (Manolito Montoya)
Mark Slade
                  (Blue Cannon)
Rudy Ramos                  (Wind)
Frank Silvera
               (Don Sebastian Montoya)

Don Collier                    (Sam Butler)
Bob Hoy                        (Joe Butler)
Roberto Contreras         (Pedro) 
Ted Markland                (Reno)
Rudolfo Acosta              (Vaquero)
Jerry Summers              (Ira)
 

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